Scotland

Scotland Ski Summary

Weather2's daily written summary of skiing conditions at the 5 Scottish ski centres has now ended for the season however our weekly European summary still includes Scotland and that report continues until the end of April. Daily statistical reporting for the five centres Scotland continues until the season ends. Mountain forecasting continues to update 4x per day every day of the week, every week of the year, for all five ski centres. The Weather2 daily written summary for the Scottish ski centres commences again November 1st.

Taking a look at the forecast over the coming week and the average daytime maximum will be around 13°C, with a high of 15°C expected on Friday afternoon. The average minimum temperature for the week ahead will be around 7°C, dipping to its lowest on Sunday morning at 5°C. Wednesday is expected to see the most precipitation with around 17mm, or about 0.7inches anticipated. The strongest wind will be felt on Tuesday afternoon, coming from the south, and reaching around 26mph, that's about 43km/h.

The day label given represents the local day relative to the local time for the location you are looking at.
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Day

This time is corrected for local time zones and where possible for daylight saving times.
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Local Time

The wind direction we use on this page is the direction the wind is coming from, given in a 16 point compass format.
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Dir

This refers to the sustained average wind speed, normally averaged over a period of 10 minutes for up to 3 hrs.
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Speed/Gust

Temperature from our forecast perspective are fairly well defined, they are what we would expect to measure in a standard meteorological screen (in other words, shaded and well ventilated) at 2 metres above ground level.
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Temp/Feels Like

The relative humidity is the percent of saturation humidity, generally calculated in relation to saturated vapour density.
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Humidity

The value given is a total predicted for the previous 3 hrs and includes the time of the forecast being looked at.
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Precip Amount

The total amount of cloud as a percentage is derived from looking at cloud cover throughout the atmosphere and estimating how these combine when looked at from the ground.
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Cloud Amount

Here we try to capture the feel of the weather as an image – it will never be perfect but is useful for a quick overview.
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Weather

When we measure for forecast air pressure we are normally doing this relative to a certain height and most commonly relative to Mean Sea Level.
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